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Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 33

They saw Androclus put his arms around the lion's neck; they saw the lion lie down at his feet, and lick them lov-ing-ly; they saw the great beast rub his head against the slave's face as though he wanted to be petted.

Who acts: people, Androclus, lion, great beast · What happens: see, put, lie down, lick, rub, want · To what, where: arms, neck, feet, people, head, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Androclus, lion, great beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjnsubjccompnmod:possobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisdetnsubjccompadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjobjxcomppunctcompoundpunctoblpunctnsubjconjdetamodnsubjccompnmod:possobjcasedetnmod:posscaseobladvmodmarknsubjadvclmarkaux:passxcomppunctrootTheyPRONsawVERBAndroclusPROPNputVERBhisPRONarmsNOUNaroundADPtheDETlionNOUN'sPARTneckNOUN;PUNCTtheyPRONsawVERBtheDETlionNOUNlieVERBdownADVatADPhisPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlickVERBthemPRONlovADJ-PUNCTingNOUN-PUNCTlyNOUN;PUNCTtheyPRONsawVERBtheDETgreatADJbeastNOUNrubVERBhisPRONheadNOUNagainstADPtheDETslaveNOUN'sPARTfaceNOUNasADVthoughSCONJhePRONwantedVERBtoPARTbeAUXpettedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sawnsubj
2sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3AndroclusAndroclusPROPNNumber=Sing4 putnsubj
4putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawccomp
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 armsnmod:poss
6armsarmNOUNNumber=Plur4 putobj
7aroundaroundADP_11 neckcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 liondet
9lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing11 necknmod:poss
10's'sPART_9 lioncase
11neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing4 putobl
12;;PUNCT_14 sawpunct
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sawnsubj
14sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawparataxis
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 liondet
16lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing17 liensubj
17lielieVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 sawccomp
18downdownADV_17 lieadvmod
19atatADP_21 feetcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 feetnmod:poss
21feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur17 lieobl
22,,PUNCT_24 lickpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 lickcc
24licklickVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 sawconj
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 lickobj
26lovlovADJDegree=Pos24 lickxcomp
27--PUNCT_26 lovpunct
28ingingNOUNNumber=Sing30 lycompound
29--PUNCT_28 ingpunct
30lylyNOUNNumber=Sing26 lovobl
31;;PUNCT_33 sawpunct
32theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs33 sawnsubj
33sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawconj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 beastdet
35greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 beastamod
36beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing37 rubnsubj
37rubrubVERBVerbForm=Inf33 sawccomp
38hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 headnmod:poss
39headheadNOUNNumber=Sing37 rubobj
40againstagainstADP_44 facecase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 slavedet
42slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing44 facenmod:poss
43's'sPART_42 slavecase
44facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing37 rubobl
45asasADV_48 wantedadvmod
46thoughthoughSCONJ_48 wantedmark
47hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 wantednsubj
48wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 rubadvcl
49totoPART_51 pettedmark
50bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf51 pettedaux:pass
51pettedpetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass48 wantedxcomp
52..PUNCT_2 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastpeoplevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2putpastAndroclusAndroclus's armsthe lion's neckvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination
3seepastpeoplevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4lie downpresentthe lionlion's feetdown propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
5lickpresentpeople not said herepeoplelov propertyvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
6seepastpeoplevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7rubinfinitivethe great beastlion's headthe slave's facevn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme against face=Destination
8wantpastlionvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9pet not said to happento-infinitive · passivelion not said herevn marry-36.2 «NP V»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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